On 5/17/05, Gen Kanai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Clay's newest piece has a lot on many topics relevant to our mailing > list including del.icio.us itself. > > Highly recommended reading. > > http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html Not much to argue about there ;) Great article and diagrams though. Interesting to see him say ontology is like fortune-telling and mind reading :))
For me, the take home line was this: Part II: The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody And relating del's "users also tagged this as.." to Venn diagrams - hadn't viewed in that sense earlier. I gather that using "predicate logic" hasn't worked to find correspondences between tags. But with tag bundles maybe people are seeing a need to sometimes look at aggregations of tags. Who knows what other kinds of collections can emerge? Pramod -- We're hiring: http://blogs.applibase.net/pramod/index.php/archives/we-are-hiring _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
